Abstract
This is an excerpt from a field research, exploratory, of qualitative and quantitative approach, which for this moment, we only dip into the qualitative part. This research was done at University hospital in the west of Paraná, located in Cascavel City, having as people researched eight nurses from several shifts and works sectors. The study aimed to verify if on their daily work routine the nurse develops some kind of psychological suffering, and at the same time if they perceive the existence of this. The data were collected during the months of April and May of 2007 and analyzed under the perspective of the qualitative research. The results showed that 100 percent of workers developed psychological suffering, in different degrees, at some moment of their daily work. However lots of them didn’t perceive that or then created defense mechanisms, trying to reduce the suffering. We believe that the implementation of strategies to improve the conditions and work environment, would provide subsides to obtain life quality at work, this reducing the inherent suffering in these nurses’ lives.
